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The Quiet American

The Quiet American (1958)

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Release Date: Feb 8, 1958 Wide

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The Quiet American was the first major American-financed film to touch upon the powder-keg situation in Vietnam (still referred to as Indochina in 1958). Audie Murphy plays an enigmatic American who comes to Saigon, ostensibly on an economic mission. He meets an embittered journalist (Michael Redgrave) who is living with an Indochinese girl (Giorgia Moll). The American falls for the girl and promises to marry her. In retaliation, the reporter tells the communists that the American GI's economist

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Mankiewicz (who also wrote the adapted screenplay) does a fine job balancing romance, intrigue and war.

July 22, 2011 Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews
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One of Mankiewicz's weaker films, a verbose, disappointingly sanitized version of Graham Greene's cynical novel about American involvement in Indo-China, with mediocre turns by Murphy and Redgrave.

March 26, 2008 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment (1)
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The Quiet American is loosely adapted from Graham Greene's penetrating 1956 book about the Indo-China War.

April 21, 2003 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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Adequate version of Greene's story no more. Redgrave is good though.
February 27, 2013
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jay nixon

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An American steals a cynical British reporter's Vietnamese girlfriend against the backdrop of international intrigue during the French occupation of Vietnam.
Once again, Joseph L. Mankiewicz knows how to tell a good story. The characters are all finely drawn, and though the typical Mankiewicz strategies of flashbacks and voice-overs get tired and over-used, the typical Mankiewicz theme of attempting to maintain one's integrity never gets old. In this iteration of Mankiewicz's oeuvre, a British reporter cares about nothing but his own interests and his own happiness, but the rhetoric of selflessness challenges his worldview. The dramatic question of whether or not he would rise to higher concerns than his own interests is quite compelling.
The remake with Michael Caine is better than the original because it's truer to Graham Greene's novel, but this is certainly a noble effort.
Overall, this is a compelling story and a strong film with great performances.
October 11, 2012
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